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April 15, 2022 • 5 hours ago • 2 minutes reading • 53 comments Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poalievre speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Enoch Cree Nation River Cree Resort and Casino west of Edmonton on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Photo by David Bloom / Postmedia
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Using “freedom” as a unifying cry, Pierre Poalievre targets various “gatekeepers” as he campaigns near Edmonton to lead the Conservative Party of Canada.
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After meeting and welcoming in Calgary earlier in the week, Poilievre spoke to a packed event hall that spilled over into a banquet hall at the River Cree Resort and Casino, west of the Alberta capital, on Thursday night.
After criticizing vaccine mandates and passports, the Ontario MP from Carlton provided some of his political points as part of his attempt to stand up to federal liberal leader Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the next election.
Among them, he proposed removing political, financial and regulatory “guardians”, such as the Canadian Infrastructure Bank, a Crown corporation responsible for financing infrastructure projects using $ 35 billion from the federal government.
“We don’t need another bank,” Poalievr said.
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Poilievre also said he would create a “pay-as-you-go law” to create a sense of fiscal responsibility.
“If a minister wants to bring in extra dollar spending, he will have to find extra dollar savings to pay for it,” he said.
He also said he would “abolish the federal carbon tax”, “unleash” production in Alberta’s energy sector and repeal Bills C-48 and C-69, which ban oil tanker traffic off the coast of northern British Columbia, and affect the timing of energy projects respectively. On the other hand, he said he would help Newfoundland increase daily oil production to “displace all oil overseas”.
Also in the bloc for cutting the candidate is the C-11 bill of the Federal Liberals, a new version of the controversial C-10 bill, which died in the procurement document after the last federal election. An earlier version of the bill was criticized as a threat to freedom of expression when the government lifted the exemption for user-generated content, placing social media content under the regulatory body of the Canadian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.
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The new bill revives the release, but is still under criticism from critics who say it gives too much power to the regulator. Poilievre said he would repeal the bill as well.
In terms of employment, the candidate for leadership gave a signal of support for trained immigrants looking for work in crafts, as well as in areas such as medicine and engineering. Poilievre said he would use federal immigration funds to get provinces to speed up a process that recognizes foreign powers.
While many of the policy proposals were met with applause, the crowd seemed to applaud loudly at the federal government’s proposal to compensate the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for $ 1 billion.
– With files from Postmedia
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Conservative nominee Pierre Poalier spoke in front of a crowd of supporters at the River Cree Resort and Casino at Enoch Cree Nation west of Edmonton on Thursday, April 14, 2022. David Bloom / Postmedia Photo by David Bloom David Bloom Conservative Party of Postmedia Leadership Pierre Poalier spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Enoch Cree Nation River Cree Resort and Casino, west of Edmonton on Thursday, April 14, 2022. David Bloom / Postmedia Photo by David Bloom David Bloom
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